Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981

by David Montejano

Book Overview

In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722907
• ISBN13: 9780292722903
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"